Question

What is a tension that runs throughout the entire story?

Answer 1

The tension that runs throughout the entire story of notes of a native son is The tension of segregation

Step-by-step explanation:

Notes of a native son by James Baldwin is made by a collection of essays that focused in race segregation, besides his difficult relationship with his father, this shows not only the conflict of being or feeling segregated from society for race or economic status but also from the family because of personal conflicts and events that were too strong for the author.

Answer 2

Answer: Segregation tension

Explanation:

Native Son is the novel that is representing one black man who is facing the struggle of a segregated society. He was trying to survive, he was poor and he didn't have the education.

• The black man was angry at the whole world and he was experienced segregation and isolation back in the 1930s which was really hard because he was different from others.